Today we are cooking an exquisite dessert with wild strawberries. Crispy shortcrust pastry, tender cottage cheese jelly and aromatic berries. On the table is a strawberry tart with puff pastry.
Prepare everything you need. Pour gelatin with water and let the crystals swell. Follow the instructions on the package for the time.
100 ml water, 15 g gelatin
Dough
For the dough, put flour, butter, salt, and baking powder in the bowl of a food processor.
100 g butter, 170 g flour, 1 pinch salt, 1 tsp baking powder
Pulse until crumbly, then add the egg.
1 pc egg
Pulse briefly until the dough comes together. Transfer to plastic wrap and refrigerate for half an hour.
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-4 mm and spread it evenly in the baking dish, forming 5 cm high edges. Make sure the layer is even everywhere, make folds and remove excess dough if necessary. Prick with a fork.
Place parchment paper on top and fill with weights, I use beans.
Bake in the oven at 170 ℃ for 10 minutes with weights, then another 10 minutes without weights. Let the shortcrust pastry cool.
Cottage cheese cream
Proceed to the next step only when the crust has cooled. For the cottage cheese cream, put cottage cheese, sour cream, and sugar in a bowl. Optionally, add vanilla.
200 g cottage cheese, 200 g sour cream, 80 g sugar
Blend with an immersion blender until the sugar granules dissolve. Here it is advisable to use fine sugar or grind it into powder. Melt the swollen gelatin in a water bath (do not boil) and gradually add it to the cottage cheese mixture. Mix well.
15 g gelatin
Add washed and dried wild strawberries.
1 glass strawberries
Immediately pour the cream with strawberries into the shortcrust pastry. Act quickly, as the gelatin sets quickly.
Refrigerate for 4-5 hours for the cream to set completely. Sprinkle with fresh strawberries on top. The tart with cottage cheese cream and strawberries is ready.